Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
I see Edvard Munch in this
Friday, February 8th, 2013Send a message via the Trystero
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012In a weird marketing tie-in with the release of Thomas Pynchon on ebooks, a not-so-secret postal system dubbed the Trystero has been set up. Two hundred locations, on the eastern and western seaboards as well as Chicago.
One can even send a message via a web to the Los Angeles location.
The destruction of the Dreaming Celestial
Monday, June 25th, 2012
Paul Pope does Adventure Time
Monday, June 25th, 2012
And how do the Mandaeans feel about this?
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012So if this freakishly does turn out to be the actual remains of John the Baptist1 then all of those Knights Templar who paid homage to John’s severed head were just kidding themselves?
Poor Templars.
I don’t buy any of it incidentally. You know as well as i that the Byzantines and Crusaders robbed graves incessantly, creating new relics. Very profitable. Sure, the bones are of Near Eastern origin
from the appropriate era. A lot of people lives and died in that time and place. Sometimes an appropriate grave was robbed through sheer circumstance.
It’ll be fun to see what mtDNA haplogroup this is though. “…a group most commonly found in the Near East.” Tell us more. The science here seems most precise.2
Gao Xingjian Paintings
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Transmutation
Sunday, June 10th, 2012
Last week, I read Stott’s Darwin’s Ghosts. Seeing this piece by the artist Morgan Herrin this morning makes me think of the destroyed grottos Bernard Palissy made for Cathere de’Medici.
Lord of Ghouls
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Lord of Ghouls, painting by Andy Kehoe.
Mexican agitprop
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Via Bruce Sterling. Hell, this has been freaking me out a little and i’m fairly used to this stuff. From these .
Now THIS is an anniversary commemoration…
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
(via metafilter)